***MEDIA ADVISORY***

CPDCWill Brief in South Carolina on the Present—and Growing—Danger from China

Key Audiences: Candidates, Voters, Legislators

COLUMBIA, S.C.—On Feb. 18, the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) will hold in South Carolina the third in a series of non-partisan, topical and timely Threat Briefings. They are aimed at informing presidential candidates, the electorate and state legislators about the ominous ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and—thanks in no small measure to financing from U.S. investors—its growing capabilities to act on them.

This Facebook-livestreamed program will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET in at the South Carolina State Capitol, where members of the CPDC and other experts will address the urgent need for presidential candidates in the Feb. 29 primary, and those they seek to represent, to understand the multifaceted and proliferating threats posed by the CCP to this country and the world. Whether they like it or not, those who seek to be our next Commander-in-Chief will have to contend with and counter China’s decades-long “unrestricted warfare.” And those doing the hiring for that position have a need to know that the applicants are up to what is certain to be Job 1 in the national security portfolio, among possibly a number of others.

A particular focus of the CPDC presentations at the public event, and in subsequent conversations with leading state legislators, will be the dangerous contribution being made to the Chinese threat by individual and institutional U.S. investors—including among the latter state government pension funds. Such investors are, wittingly or unwittingly, underwriting CCP-owned or -affiliated companies engaged in behavior inimical to our vital interests, economic competitiveness and/or national security.

Participants in this important event will be:

Joseph Bosco*, Esq., former China Desk Officer for the Secretary of Defense

State Rep. Alan D. Clemmons, representative of South Carolina’s 107th House District and until recently the president of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

Ambassador Henry “Hank” Cooper*, a South Carolinian, Chairman of High Frontier and former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative

Major General Lester D. Eisner (U.S. Army National Guard, Ret.), former Deputy Adjutant General of South Carolina and former Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Engagement at the University of South Carolina (USC)

Frank Gaffney*, former Assistant Secretary of Defense (acting) and Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger

Sean Lin, a survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre, executive director of the Global Alliance against Communist Propaganda and Disinformation, U.S. Army veteran and a Falun Gong practitioner

Roger Robinson, former Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council, president of RWR Advisory Group LLC and chairman of the Prague Security Studies Institute

Major General Michael Regner (U.S. Marine Corps, Ret.), who currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Marine Corps League, a Senior Mentor to the U.S. Marine Corps and on The National Medal of Honor Foundation Board

*Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China

The briefing will be held in Room 110, The Blatt Building, South Carolina State Capitol, 1105 Pendleton Street in Columbia.

Following the Threat Briefing, the CPDC team expects to discuss the foregoing issues with members of the South Carolina Senate and House of Representatives and members of the media.

The CPDC will conduct a 2020 Battlespace Threat Briefing in Las Vegas on Feb. Additional briefings will be added in the coming weeks.

The mission of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the “Committee on Present Danger: China.”